TRUE SPORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1916, Page 5

TRUE SPORTS.

THE C.J.C. ?OSTPONES RACES. OX ANZAC DAY. ' By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Wellington, Last Nigiit. Recently tlie Prime Minister communicated with tlie Canterbury Jockey Club with regard to t'iie clashing of their meeting on Easter Tuesday with Anzac Day, and lie suggested that the' Club might see their way to postpone the meeting, in view of the celebrations (partly religious and partly patriotic) that were to be held throughout the Dominion on Anzac Day. To-night the Prime Minister received the following reply from the secretary of the Club:—"At your request the committee have postponed Tuesday's, races." Mr. Massey despatched the following reply: "On behalf of the Government ,1 desire to thank you for your telegTam informing ine that, at my request; the Canterbury Jockey Club has agreed to postpone the meeting which was to be held on Easter Tuesday, which, unfortunately, clashed with Anzac Day, I hig'hly appreciate the Club's courtesy' and consideration in postponing the meeting, and am quite sure that what the Club has done in this respect''will meet with the approval of the great majority of the people of the Dominion." Christc'hurch, Last Night. A special meeting of the. C.J.C. to-day decided, at the request of itlie Premier, to postpone Tuesday's racing until Thursday.